11.4 Ethics 87 development background for an intellectual property case or someone with training in cellular technology for a cell-tower-tracking case. 11.3 IMPACT ON EXAMINATIONS The combination of variations in training, standards organizations, and internal policies and procedures leads to the reality that if you are working with an expert in the private sector, your results will vary depending on whom you hire or if you are in a corporate environment, who is managing your forensic program. This also holds true for law enforcement agencies, especially very small agencies where the examiner is doing very few cases a year and has limited access to training. Probably the worst-case scenario is someone who has decided that computer forensics is an "easy money" field and has purchased a forensic software tool and started practicing without investing the time or money to make sure that they have at least a minimal understanding of the standard areas of digital forensics: collec- tion, preservation, analysis, and reporting. The results of examinations differ as widely as the diversity of examiners from